Table 2.
Nutrients content in the ryegrass dry tissues for each treatment and for each of the five cuts.
| Treatment | N |
P |
K |
Ca |
Mg |
Na |
Cu |
Fe |
Zn |
Mn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| g kg−1 | mg kg−1 | |||||||||
| 1st cut | 23 a | 6.5 ab | 55 a | 4.5 c | 1.9 c | 2.1 b | 8.9 a | 72 a | 27 d | 34 c |
| 2nd cut | 12 b | 7.4 a | 43 b | 6.8 b | 3.2 b | 1.7 b | 6.3 b | 41 b | 27 d | 59 b |
| 3rd cut | 11 c | 5.6 b | 40 b | 8.3 a | 4.8 a | 2.1 b | 5.4 bc | 38 bc | 35 c | 78 a |
| 4th cut | 11 c | 6.1 b | 35 c | 8.3 a | 4.7 a | 3.2 a | 4.9 c | 36 bc | 53 b | 80 a |
| 5th cut | 11 c | 5.3 b | 19 d | 6.6 b | 4.6 a | 7.5 a | 0.5 d | 31 c | 66 a | 27 d |
Means in the same column with the same small letter do not differ significantly (p ≤ 0.05), as judged by the Tukey test.